education

• 2021. yale university. phd. linguistics.
• 2019. yale university. mphil. linguistics.
• 2018. yale university. ma. linguistics.
• 2015. yale university. ba cum laude. cognitive science. linguistics.

fellowships & awards

• 2017-2021. national science foundation graduate research fellowship ($138,000).
• 2016-2020. yale internal conference awards (totaling $5250 to date).
• 2019. international phonetic association student travel award (£600).
• 2018-2019. cleta and henry offerman scholarship ($30,500).
• 2016-2018. irene battell larned fellowship ($141,000).
• 2017. bucld paula menyuk travel award ($200).
• 2015. mellon senior research award ($500).

work experience

• 2021. alumni reviewer, bezos family foundation. seattle.
• 2018. contracted researcher, ted conferences. new york.
• 2018. bezos senior scholar, ted 2018. vancouver, canada.
• 2013-2016. lab manager, language & brain lab. pis: maria mercedes piñango & ashwini deo. new haven, ct.
• 2014-2015. researcher, histling lab. pi: claire bowern. new haven, ct.
• 2013-2015. lead linguistic consultant, pronouncing dictionary of the u.s. supreme court. pi: eugene fidell. new haven, ct.
• 2013-2014. contracted research assistant, ngalia foundation. pis: susan hanson, & kado muir. kalgoorlie, australia.

teaching experience

• 2020. cognitive science of sign languages, instructor of record.
• 2019. cognitive science junior colloquium, guest instructor. instructor: joshua knobe & natalia córdova sánchez.
• 2020. cognitive foundations of meaning change, guest instructor. instructor: maria mercedes piñango.
• 2020. language and mind, guest instructor. instructor: maria mercedes piñango.
• 2019. intro to linguistics, teaching fellow, guest lecturer. instructor: jason shaw.
• 2019. language and mind, guest instructor. instructor: maria mercedes piñango.
• 2019. neurolinguistics, guest instructor. instructor: maria mercedes piñango.
• 2018. language and mind, teaching fellow, guest lecturer. instructor: maria mercedes piñango.

service

• 2020-. reviewer, yale undergraduate research journal.
• 2020-. mentor, project short.
• 2019-2020. departmental graduate student representative (elected).
• 2019. meaning in flux workshop organizer (yale).
• 2019. ad hoc reviewer, cogsci 2019.
• 2019. sign languages in the mind panel co-organizer (yale).
• 2017-2019. department open house co-organizer.
• 2017-2018. department colloquia co-organizer.
• 2017. meaning in flux workshop co-founder and organizer (yale).

memberships

• 2019 - . international phonetic association.
• 2018 - . cognitive science society.
• 2013 - . linguistic society of america.

relevant skills

• coding: r, latex, matlab, python, html, markdown, sql.
• software: e-prime, eeglab, advanced excel, mechanical turk, neuroscan, praat, qualtrics, spss, yale bioimage suite.

languages

• native american english.
• native mandarin chinese.
• advanced american sign language.
• advanced french.
• beginner spanish.
• research: tjupan (wati).

publications

• to appear, 2022. individuals' 'autistic-like' traits, but not binary gender-group, underlie linguistic context-sensitivity: word-meaning variation in english have-sentences. with mm piñango & a deo. language.
• under review. gestural coordination in tonal, toneless, and de-toned syllables: diachrony as individually-driven synchronic variation. with jason shaw.
• submitted. gradience in autistic traits predicts variation in linguistic behavior. with c mourgues, g chopra, m fuchs, & mm piñango.
• 2019. gestural representations of tone in mandarin: evidence from timing alternations. with c geissler & j shaw. proceedings of icphs 2019.
• 2018. real-time roots of meaning change: electrophysiology reveals the contextual-modulation processing basis of synchronic variation in the location-possession domain. with mm piñango & a deo. proceedings of cogsci 2018.
• 2016. metonymy as refential dependency: psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic arguments for a unified linguistic treatment. with mm piñango, e foster hanson, m negishi, c lacadie, & rt constable. cognitive science.
• 2014. tjupan sketch grammar. with s hanson, c bowern, h hayne, l lindemann, m tyler, & g brody.

manuscripts in prep

• factor analysis of the autism quotient reveals cognitive components of linguistic context-sensitivity: evidence from contextual-modulation. with mm piñango, c mourgues, m fuchs, gchopra, j sheen, n wu, & s sánchez-alonso.
• the neural bases of mandarin chinese metonymy and metaphor: mechanism and distinction. with fp yang, ys ho, & mm piñango.
• the development of metonymy comprehension as the growth of context-construal ability. with j sheen & mm piñango.

invited talks

• postponed to 2021. linguistic variation from cognitive variability: the case of english have. department of linguistics colloquium, swarthmore college.
• 2019. how can a maple tree have a car? contextual-modulation of meaning variability in the location-possession domain. meaning & modality linguistics laboratory , harvard university.
• 2019. gestural representations of tone in mandarin: evidence from timing alternations. department of linguistics colloquium, university of delaware.

conference talks

• 2020. the development of metonymic comprehension as the growth of context-construal ability. with mm piñango & j sheen. lsa 2020, new orleans.
• 2019. one role for individual differences. with n wu, j sheen, mm piñango, c mourgues, m fuchs, & g chopra. meaning in flux 2019, yale u, new haven.
• 2019. the development of metonymic comprehension as the growth of context-construal ability. with mm piñango & j sheen. meaning in flux 2019, yale u, new haven.
• 2019. gestural representations of tone in mandarin: evidence from timing alternations. with c geissler & j shaw. icphs 2019, melbourne.
• 2018. gestural representations of tone in mandarin: evidence from timing alternations. with c geissler & j shaw. amp 2018, ucsd, san diego.
• 2018. real-time roots of meaning change: electrophysiology reveals the contextual-modulation processing basis of synchronic variation in the location-possession domain. with mm piñango & a deo. transdisciplinary approaches to language variation workshop. uit the arctic university of norway, tromsø, norway.
• 2017. a unified conceptual grounding for the meanings of english have. with mm piñango & a deo. plc 41, upenn, philadelphia.
• 2017. accessing locative interptations in have-sentences: context-sensitive variability. with mm piñango & a deo. dgfs 2017, saarland u, saarbrücken, germany.
• 2016. a unified conceptual grounding of the locative and possessive meanings of english have: evidence from contextual priming. with mm piñango & a deo. snews 2016, brown u, providence, ri.
• 2016. "are you the banana split?": the development of metonymic processing. with mm piñango & k davidson. the role of pragmatic factors in child language processing (xprag.de workshop), humboldt u, berlin.

posters

• 2020. individual's "autistic" traits predict variability in sentence comprehension performance: linguistic components of the autism quotient questionnaire. with c mourgues, m fuchs, j sheen, s sánchez-alonso, n wu, g chopra, & mm piñango. cuny 2020, umass amherst, amherst, ma.
• [postponed to 2021]. possible communicative underpinnings of autism spectrum disorder: exploring the factor structure of the autism quotient questionnaire. mola, duke university, durham, nc.
• [postponed to 2021]. individual's "autistic" traits predict variability in language task performance: linguistic components of the autism quotient questionnaire. with c mourgues, m fuchs, j sheen, s sánchez-alonso, n wu, g chopra, & mm piñango. mola 2021, duke university, durham, nc.
• 2019. how are metonymy and metaphor different: neural processes and contextual effects. with fp yang, mm piñango & yh chen. snl 2019, helsinki.
• 2018. the real-time roots of meaning change: electrophysiology reveals the contextual-modulation processing basis of synchronic variation in the location-possession domain. with mm piñango & a deo. sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic, and formal perspectives on meaning workshop, u. paris diderot, paris.
• 2017. the development of metonymic processing as the growth of context construal ability. with mm piñango & k davidson. bucld 2017 (caution: pdf link), bu, boston.
• 2017. processing meaning change: a unified conceptualization for the comprehension of english have. with mm piñango & a deo. cuny 2017, mit, boston.
• 2016. a unified conceptual grounding of the locative and possessive meanings of english have: an offline and a real-time contextual priming study. with mm piñango & a deo. mental lexicon 2016, ottawa.
• 2016. individual differences drive word-meaning variation along conceptual structure pathways: contextual-priming of the location-possession continuum. with mm piñango & a deo. emergent meaning workshop (cogsci 2016 satellite). lehigh u, bethlehem, pa.
• 2014. lexical and pragmatic metonymy processing: two domains vs. one mechanism. with e foster hanson, m negishi, & mm piñango. cogsci 2014, quebec city.